Academic interests
Medieval Latin Literature (poetry, mythography, homiletics, travelogues)
The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages (Ovid, Aristotle)
Liberal Arts and Philosophy (Grammar, Logic, Epistemology)
I am a Medieval Latinist with a strong interest in the intellectual and social history of literature. Since January 2023, I work as a researcher for the ERC project MINiTEXTS under the guidance of Professor Ildar Garipzanov.
Background
2006: Magister artium in Medieval Latin and Philosophy (Heidelberg).
2011: PhD in Medieval Latin (Erlangen).
2023: Habilitation in Medieval Latin (Cologne).
Awards
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DFG research grant: »The Mythographic Sermon in Late Medieval England: Classicism, Discourse, and Clerical Identity, 1330-1450«, 36+3 months (2018-2021).
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DAAD P.R.I.M.E. research grant: »Thomas Walsingham and Mythography in Late Medieval St Albans«, 18 months (2015-2017), DAAD/MSCA.
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Mellon Research Fellowship (2012-2013).
Positions held
Before I came to Oslo, I worked as a researcher at the Universities of Erlangen and Cologne and at the German Historical Institute in London; I was a visiting scholar in Toronto and Exeter and a (digital) guest professor at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Changchun (China).
Selected Publications
Books
[Sub tegime fabularum. Mythographie, Wissensdiskurs und Predigt im spätmittelalterlichen England, Habilitationsschrift, Cologne 2022, publication in preparation]
Anonymi Epternacensis Glossae in logicam. Studie mit kritischer Edition der Texte (Rarissima Mediaevalia 5), Münster 2015.
Hermann der Lahme, Opusculum Herimanni (De octo vitiis principalibus). Eine Vers- und Lebensschule (Reichenauer Texte und Bilder 14), Heidelberg 2008, 22016.
Selected Articles
»Wyclif vs. Ovid: Poetry, Philosophy, and Holy Scripture in the Late Middle Ages«, in: Christine Ratkowitsch, (ed.), Medialatinitas (Wiener Studien. Beihefte: Arbeiten zur mittel- und neulateinischen Philologie), Vienna 2020, pp. 237-264.
»Ovidius historizatus. Poetisches Wissen in Walsinghams Archana deorum«, in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 55 (2020), pp. 207-239.
»Ovidianische Selbstbehauptung. Mythographie und Krise im spätmittelalterlichen England«, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 53 (2019), pp. 345-368.